Random facts

[Starhelperdude]

there is no maut (you don't have to pay anything on highways here, as opposed to places like france or croatia) in germany and there is no Speed limit on highways here in germany, so you could drive with reentry speeds around and it would be (legally) ok

[Stormpilot]

There is a town, on an island called Kiribati, named Poland. There is also London.

[Guest]

On 3/1/2021 at 8:45 PM, STORMPILOTkerbalkind said:

There is a town, on an island called Kiribati, named Poland. There is also London.

Fact: Oversimplified is da best (nice profile pic)

[Stormpilot]

26 minutes ago, The Doodling Astronaut said:

Fact: Oversimplified is da best (nice profile pic)

Fact: I 700% agree with you.

Fact: a runway overrun that happened one time in Egypt was cause by the pilots landing at the wrong airport.

Fact: a Russian IL-62 once overran the runway because the flight engineer set engine #1 and 4 to takeoff thrust, not reverse thrust.

Fact: 5G won’t hurt you, because so far my 200g antennas on my spacecraft have so far not fried up my kerbals.

Fact: VLF (very low frequency) transmissions can penetrate water, while VHF (very high frequency) and UHF (ultra high frequency) ones cannot.

Fact: the first version of Microsoft flight simulator came out in 1982.

Fact: the 3 levels of distress on aircraft and boating channels (from least concerning to life threatening danger) are security, pan pan, and mayday.

Fact: there is no part of an airport called the tarmac. There is the runway, taxiway, and ramp area.

Fact opinion: the Star Wars prequels are not all that bad.

Edited March 4, 2021 by STORMPILOTkerbalkind
My bad grammer and speeling

[SudAntares]

At least once in your lifetime you take a breath.

In Russian language you basically say the same word (with grammatical differences) for hearing and smelling.

S.P.A. means Sanatio Per Aquam - Healing with water in latin.

SPA is the acronym for Spondylarthritis Ankylopoetica, a chronic autoimmune inflammation of the backbones which leads to a state (usually between 10 - 30 years), where all of your backbones gets fixed and connected with "bone bridges", so you cannot turn even your head arond, there are no movement between the backbones.

"Errare humanum est, in errore perseverare srultum est." - proverb in Latin: "It's a human thing to do mistakes, but to not correcting them, is dumbness." 

 

[Spaceman.Spiff]

If you look at the ceiling, it will say gullible. 

[AlamoVampire]

Change that comes slow is easy. Change that comes fast and suddenly is not. 
 

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[Stormpilot]

There is a chance (a very very small one) that a goose will fly into your house and beat you up with a baseball bat.

 

[paul_c]

The Jazz tune "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" ISN'T in swingtime - its 4/4.

[SpaceFace545]

Graham's number is so big that visualizing it would turn your head into a literal black hole.

This is because your brain has a limit on the entropy it can store and a black hole the size of your head takes far less entropy to produce than Graham's number has.

Graham's number is huge. 

All we know is that it's last digit is 7.

[kerbiloid]

Actually that' the best part of what we know about the Graham number . It ends with 7.

[SpaceFace545]

 

11 minutes ago, kerbiloid said:

Actually that' the best part of what we know about the Graham number . It ends with 7.

Also the furthest we can narrow it down too is between 11 and Graham's number.

[Starhelperdude]

the last 3 fission reactors will be shut down in germany in this or next year (IMO  )

[OrdinaryKerman]

44 minutes ago, Starhelperdude said:

the last 3 fission reactors will be shut down in germany in this or next year (IMO  )

Oh no... why is your govt. shutting down perfectly fine nuclear plants? 

On that note, non-soviet Europe has never had a major nuclear disaster. Despite that, anti-nuclear activism is somewhat commonplace.

Edited April 1, 2021 by OrdinaryKerman

[Stormpilot]

Looking at the Pi number all at once would not only make your brain into a bigger black hole, but would be impossible to visualize it all (because it is infinite).

here are the first 500 digits:

3. 1415926535  89793238462643383279  5028841971 

6939937510  5820974944  59230781640628620899 

8628034825  3421170679  82148086513282306647 

0938446095  5058223172  53594081284811174502 

8410270193  8521105559  64462294895493038196 

4428810975  6659334461  28475648233786783165 

2712019091  4564856692  34603486104543266482 

1339360726  0249141273  72458700660631558817 

4881520920  9628292540  91715364367892590360 

0113305305  4882046652  13841469519415116094 

3305727036  5759591953  09218611738193261179 

3105118548  0744623799  62749567351885752724 

8912279381  8301194912

Edited April 1, 2021 by STORMPILOTkerbalkind

[kerbiloid]

Check the 102nd digit, please.

Edited April 1, 2021 by kerbiloid

[Starhelperdude]

On 3/4/2021 at 3:46 AM, STORMPILOTkerbalkind said:

 

Fact opinion: the Star Wars prequels are not all that bad.

opinion: you are 100% right, *insert star wars stuff here*

fact: the president (not chancellor)  of germany is de jure above the chancellor but de facto lower than him/her

[Lewie]

On 3/6/2021 at 9:37 AM, SudAntares said:

*snip*

SPA is the acronym for Spondylarthritis Ankylopoetica, a chronic autoimmune inflammation of the backbones which leads to a state (usually between 10 - 30 years), where all of your backbones gets fixed and connected with "bone bridges", so you cannot turn even your head arond, there are no movement between the backbones.

*snip*

Isn’t that what Mick Mars has?

[AlamoVampire]

You read this sentence. Also there are 2 types of people those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.

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[Starhelperdude]

the joker in the lego batman movie is voiced in the german dub by the german let's player Gronkh

 

Hydine is made partly of UDMH

[JB182]

1. About 8.3 billion tonnes of plastic has been produced since the 1950s – the weight of roughly a billion elephants or 47 million blue whales

2. Only about 9% of this plastic has been recycled, 12% has been burned and the remaining 79% has ended up in landfills or the environment

3. every year, 100 million animal die because of plastic pollution

4. It takes about 450 years just for one plastic bottle to break down in the ground

5. in 2023, human pop. will rise to 8 billion

6. the dev says that the kerbals made out of snacks or mold

7. there is an asteroid shaped like a pancake and was believed to be a UFO

[JB182]

8. there are 195 countrys around the world

9. there are 1181019 games

[JB182]

10. there are 3.154e+7 second in a year (i got it from google so if its wrong its googles fault)

11. the tallest mountain in the solar system is not everest but olympus mons in mars

12. Cats can rotate their ears 180 degrees

13. The oldest known pet cat existed 9,500 years ago

14. A cat was the Mayor of an Alaskan town for 20 years

15. Isaac Newton invented the cat door

16. In 1963 a cat went to space

17. laika was the first dog in space in the sputnik 2 in 1957 but die in LEO because of overheating

[OrdinaryKerman]

The first animal in space was a fruit fly in 1947 or something

The number of countries is actually indeterminate, but always 200-ish

Zvezda is leaky

[JB182]

1. Hot water will turn into ice faster than cold water

2. The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows

3. The sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language

4. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue